CPAR

• The Insignia of the Order of National Artists

  Composed of a Grand Collar featuring circular links portraying the arts, and eight-pointed conventionalized sunburst suspended from a sampaguita wreath in green and white enamel
• The Insignia of the Order of National Artists


  Medallion divided into three equal portions, red, blue and white, recalling the Philippine flag
• The Insignia of the Order of National Artists

  Three stylized letter Ks - the KKK stands for the CPP's motto: Katotohanan, Kabutihan, kagandahan. - First Lady Imelda Marcos, CPP's founder
• Honors and Privileges of National Artists

  • The rank and title of National Artist, as proclaimed by the President of the Philippines
  • The insignia of a National Artist and a citation
  • Lifetime emolument and material and physical benefits comparable in value to those received by the highest officers of the land such as:
  • Cash award of 100, 000 pesos for living awardees
  • Cash award of 75,000 pesos for posthumous awardees, payable to legal heirs
  • A monthly life pension, medical and hospitalization benefits
  • Life insurance coverage for Awardees who are still insurable
  • A state funeral and burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani
  • A place of honor
• Amado V. Hernandez


  National Artist for Literature (1973)
• Amado V. Hernandez, poet, playwright, and novelist, is among the Filipino writers who practiced "committed art"
• Amado V. Hernandez's view

  The function of the writer is to act as the conscience of society and to affirm the greatness of the human spirit in the face of inequity and oppression
• Hernandez's contribution to the development of Tagalog prose is considerable - he stripped Tagalog of its ornate character and wrote in prose closer to the colloquial than the "official" style permitted
• Hernandez's novel Mga Ibong Mandaragit, first written by Hernandez while in prison, is the first Filipino socio-political novel that exposes the ills of the society as evident in the agrarian problems of the 50s
• Hernandez's other works


  • Bayang Malaya
  • Isang Dipang Langit
  • Luha ng Buwaya
  • Amado V. Hernandez: Tudla at Tudling: Katipunan ng mga Nalathalang Tula 1921-1970
  • Langaw sa Isang Basong Gatas at Iba Pang Kuwento ni Amado V. Hernandez
  • Magkabilang Mukha ng Isang Bagol at Iba Pang Akda ni Amado V. Hernandez
• Jose Garcia Villa


  National Artist for Literature (1973)
• Jose Garcia Villa is considered as one of the finest contemporary poets regardless of race or language
• Jose Garcia Villa's poem "Have Come, Am Here" received critical recognition when it appeared in New York in 1942 that, soon enough honors and fellowships were heaped on him: Guggenheim, Bollingen, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards
• Jose Garcia Villa's penname

  Doveglion (Dove, Eagle, Lion)
• Nick Joaquin


  National Artist for Literature (1976)
• "Before 1521 we could have been anything and everything not Filipino; after 1565 we can be nothing but Filipino." -Culture and History, 1988
• Nick Joaquin is regarded by many as the most distinguished Filipino writer in English writing so variedly and so well about so many aspects of the Filipino
• Nick Joaquin enriched the English language with critics coining "Joaquinesque" to describe his baroque Spanish-flavored English or his reinventions of English based on Filipinisms
• Nick Joaquin's significance in Philippine literature involves his exploration of the Philippine colonial past under Spain and his probing into the psychology of social changes as seen by the young, as exemplified in stories such as Doña Jeronima, Candido's Apocalypse and The Order of Melchizedek
• Nick Joaquin's works


  • The Woman Who Had Two Navels
  • A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino
  • Manila, My Manila: A History for the Young
  • The Ballad of the Five Battles
  • Rizal in Saga
  • Almanac for Manileños
  • Cave and Shadows
• Carlos P. Romulo


  National Artist for Literature (1982)
• Carlos P. Romulo had a multifaceted career spanning 50 years of public service as educator, soldier, university president, journalist and diplomat
• Carlos P. Romulo was the first Asian president of the United Nations General Assembly, then Philippine Ambassador to Washington, D.C., and later minister of foreign affairs
• Carlos P. Romulo was a reporter at 16, a newspaper editor by the age of 20, and a publisher at 32
• Carlos P. Romulo was the only Asian to win America's coveted Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for a series of articles predicting the outbreak of World War II
• Carlos P. Romulo's books

  • The United (novel)
  • I Walked with Heroes (autobiography)
  • I Saw the Fall of the Philippines
  • Mother America
  • I See the Philippines Rise (war-time memoirs)
  • Forty Years: A Third World Soldier at the UN
  • The Philippine Presidents - his oral history of his experiences serving all the Philippine presidents
• Francisco Arcellana


  National Artist for Literature (1990)
• Francisco Arcellana is a writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist and teacher, and one of the most important progenitors of the modern Filipino short story in English
• Francisco Arcellana pioneered the development of the short story as a lyrical prose-poetic form
• For Arcellana, the pride of fiction is "that it is able to render truth, that is able to present reality"
• Francisco Arcellana's published books

  • Selected Stories (1962)
  • Poetry and Politics: The State of Original Writing in English in the Philippines Today (1977)
  • The Francisco Arcellana Sampler(1990)
• Francisco Arcellana's short stories

  • Frankie
  • The Man Who Would Be Poe
  • Death in a Factory
  • Lina
  • A Clown Remembers
  • Divided by Two
  • The Mats
• Francisco Arcellana's poems


  • The Other Woman
  • This Being the Third Poem This Poem is for Mathilda
  • To Touch You and I Touched Her
• Rolando S. Tinio


  National Artist for Theatre and Literature (1997)
• Rolando S. Tinio was a playwright, thespian, poet, teacher, critic and translator
• Tinio's chief distinction is as a stage director whose original insights into the scripts he handled brought forth productions notable for their visual impact and intellectual cogency
• Tinio took on Teatro Pilipino, reviving traditional Filipino drama by re-staging old theater forms like the sarswela and opening a treasure-house of contemporary Western drama
• Rolando S. Tinio's collections of poetry


  • Sitsit sa Kuliglig
  • Dunung - Dunungan
  • Kristal na Uniberso
  • A Trick of Mirrors
• Rolando S. Tinio's film scripts


  • Now and Forever
  • Gamitin Mo Ako
• Rolando S. Tinio's sarswelas

  • Ang Mestisa
  • Ako
  • Ang Kiri
  • Ana Maria